Word Finder - cocks

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A male bird, especially:

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A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.

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The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.

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The notch of an arrow or crossbow.

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The penis.

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The circle at the end of the rink.

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The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.

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A stupid person.

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Nonsense; rubbish.

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(Tasmania) Term of address.

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All right, cock?

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A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.

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Shuttlecock

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A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.

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A chief man; a leader or master.

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The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.

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A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

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• cockfish

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The style or gnomon of a sundial.

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The indicator of a balance.

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The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

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To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.

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To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.

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In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.

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To erect; to turn up.

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To copulate with.

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To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.

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He cocked his hat jauntily.

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To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.

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To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.

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To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children)

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(where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.

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A small conical pile of hay.

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The farmhands stack the hay into cocks

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To form into piles.

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Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.

The vats are also provided with false bottoms, outlet cocks, steam pipes and so forth.

After the first moult the difference between the sexes is shown by the hens inclining to yellowish-green, while the cocks become diversified by orange-yellow and red, their plumage finally deepening into a rich crimson-red, varied in places by a flamecolour.

The cocks regu FIG.

The Central Wales section of the London & North-Western railway from Craven Arms to Swansea crosses the north-west corner of the county, and is intersected at Builth Road by a branch of the Cambrian, which, running for the most part on the Radnorshire side of the Wye, follows that river from Rhayader to Three Cocks; the Midland railway from Hereford to Swansea runs through the centre of the county, effecting junctions at Three Cocks with the Cambrian, at Talyllyn with the Brecon & Merthyr railway (which connects the county with the industrial areas of East Glamorgan and West Monmouthshire), and at Capel Colbren with the Neath and Brecon line.

Normandy's apparatus, although economical and producing water of good quality, is very complex in its structure, consisting of very numerous working parts, with elaborate arrangements of pipes, cocks and other fittings.

On one side are a boar and a leopard confronting each other, and on the other side two cocks in the same heraldic arrangement.

Occasionally turkeys, the cocks especially, occur with a top-knot of feathers, and one of them was figured by Albin in 1738.

Similar examinations by means of the stop-valves on the mains are also made, and it often happens that the residual leakage (400 gallons an hour in the last case) recorded on the diagram, but not shut off by the house stop - cocks, is mentioned by the inspector as an " outside waste," and localized as having been heard at a stop-cock and traced by sounding the pavement to a particular position under a particular street.

The absorbing vessels are then about half filled with the absorbents, and, by opening the cocks and aspirating, the liquid is brought so as (By permission of Messrs Baird & Tatlock.) FIG.

The general and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs of cowardice in the other.

Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was repeated by others from various sides and all became silent.

In structure and some of its habits much resembling a bullfinch, but much exceeding that bird in size, it has the plumage of a crossbill and appears to undergo the same changes as do the members of the restricted genus Loxia - the young being of a dull greenish-grey streaked with brownish-black, the adult liens tinged with golden-green, and the cocks glowing with crimson-red on nearly all the body-feathers, this last colour being replaced after moulting in confinement by bright yellow.

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The cocks are then closed.